L. D. TROTSKY, S. V. KOSIOR**

Kiev, to Rakovsky, Trotsky, Kosior

We urgently recommend closing all commissariats except the military, communications, and food commissariats. Mobilize everyone without exception for military work and set the task of holding out for at least a few weeks, merging into a single institution the Council of People's Commissars, the Council of Defense, the Central Executive Committee, and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine. We request that Trotsky pull together all forces for this purpose 376.

August 13.

Politburo: Lenin, Kamenev, Stasova

XXXIV

Printed in full in 1956

in the book: V. I. Lenin. "Military

in the handwriting of E. D. Stasova

* The telegram is also signed by E. M. Sklyanski, member of the Council of Defense. Ed.

** The telegram bears the notation: "Send immediately by cipher. Elena Stasova. 1919, 13/VIII". Ed.

Written August 13, 1919

First printed incompletely

in 1942 in the Lenin Collection

correspondence. 1917-1920". Moscow

Printed according to the text written